All articles tagged with #microbes
Scientists are exploring the use of Earth's microbes, specifically Sporosarcina pasteurii and Chroococcidiopsis, to transform Martian soil into building materials and produce oxygen, potentially enabling sustainable habitats on Mars through biocementation and 3D printing, reducing the need for transporting materials from Earth and supporting long-term human settlement.
Scientists warn that resilient waterborne amoebae like Naegleria fowleri pose a growing global health threat due to climate change, poor water infrastructure, and limited monitoring, as they can survive harsh conditions and carry deadly pathogens, necessitating integrated water management and surveillance efforts.
Mariangela Hungria won the 2025 World Food Prize for her research on nitrogen-fixing bacteria that enhance crop yields, reduce fertilizer costs, and lower pollution, offering a sustainable solution for farmers and global food security.
Scientists discovered 26 resilient bacterial species in NASA's ultra-sterile cleanrooms, raising concerns about Earth microbes contaminating Mars and challenging current sterilization protocols, with future experiments planned to test their survival in space-like conditions.
Scientists discovered 26 new bacterial species in NASA's sterile cleanrooms, which could potentially survive space travel and contaminate Mars. They plan to test these microbes in a Mars-like environment to assess their resilience, highlighting the importance of planetary protection and microbial survival strategies.
Scientists have discovered that microbes can rapidly colonize freshly cooled lava within hours of solidification, demonstrating remarkable resilience and adaptability in extreme environments, with implications for understanding life's potential on other planets like Mars.
The article discusses the discovery of aeonophiles, ultra-long-lived microbes living deep beneath Earth's surface, which challenge traditional notions of lifespan and life itself, and have significant implications for understanding life's diversity, evolution, and potential existence on other planets.
Scientists discovered microbial life in an extremely alkaline underwater environment with pH 12, using lipid biomarkers to study survival strategies of methane- and sulfate-metabolizing microbes, revealing both ancient and modern microbial populations and challenging previous assumptions about life's limits.
Scientists have discovered a new bacterial phylum, CSP1-3, deep within Earth's crust in Iowa and China, which plays a crucial role in purifying water by consuming pollutants and may be among the most ecologically significant microbes in deep soil environments, challenging previous assumptions about inertness in such habitats.
Scientists discovered nitrogen-fixing microbes beneath Arctic sea ice, challenging previous assumptions and suggesting that melting ice could increase microbial activity, potentially impacting global climate models by altering marine ecosystems and carbon absorption.
Researchers have revived microbes frozen for 40,000 years in Alaskan permafrost, raising concerns that warming temperatures could reactivate these microbes, leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions and further climate warming.
Scientists have revived microbes from 40,000-year-old Alaskan permafrost, which, when active, release carbon dioxide and methane, potentially accelerating climate change as Arctic warming continues and permafrost thaws.
Scientists have reawakened ancient microbes from permafrost dating back to the last ice age, which can become active within months under warmer Arctic summer conditions, potentially releasing significant amounts of CO2 and methane, thus accelerating global warming and permafrost thawing.
Microbes trapped in 40,000-year-old permafrost in Alaska have been reawakened due to thawing, potentially releasing significant greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide as climate change accelerates Arctic melting, with microbes showing increased activity after prolonged warm periods, raising concerns about a feedback loop that could further accelerate global warming.
Scientists investigated why Bayley Hazen Blue cheese, traditionally mottled green, turned white over a few years, discovering microbial changes in the cheese's rind that caused the color shift.